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Journal of Applied Geophysics
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Journal of Applied Geophysics

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Earth Science 242 78 92 15
Engineering and Technology 940 21 23 8

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 163
Documents by Best Scientists*: 173
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 104
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.576
Impact Factor: 2.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Applied Geophysics?

The foci of Journal of Applied Geophysics are Mineralogy, Algorithm, Inversion (meteorology), Ground-penetrating radar and Seismology. While work presented in it provided substantial information on Mineralogy, it also covered topics in Porosity, Electrical resistivity and conductivity and Borehole. It explores topics in Electrical resistivity and conductivity which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Soil science and Geotechnical engineering.

Geophysics and Aquifer are some topics wherein Borehole research discussed in the journal have an impact. Research on Aquifer addressed in it frequently intersections with the field of Geomorphology. In the journal, Mathematical analysis, Inverse problem and Synthetic data are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Inversion (meteorology) research.

In Journal of Applied Geophysics, researchers investigate the Ground-penetrating radar study as part of research in the field of Radar.

  • Mineralogy (15.90%)
  • Algorithm (13.37%)
  • Inversion (meteorology) (12.33%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Potential field tilt—a new concept for location of potential field sources (643 citations)
  • Two-dimensional resistivity imaging and modelling in areas of complex geology (613 citations)
  • Recent developments in the direct-current geoelectrical imaging method (471 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Applied Geophysics:

The most cited papers explore disciplines such as Mineralogy, Ground-penetrating radar, Groundwater, Aquifer and Electrical resistivity and conductivity. Aside from discussions in Mineralogy, the published articles also deal with the subject of Porosity which intersects with Permeability (earth sciences) disciplines. Seismology, Geotechnical engineering, Data processing and Geophysics are some topics wherein Ground-penetrating radar research discussed in the journal articles has an impact.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Quantum mechanics
  • World War II
  • Artificial intelligence

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Journal of Applied Geophysics covers a variety of subjects, including Algorithm, Electrical resistivity tomography, Electrical resistivity and conductivity, Inversion (meteorology) and Seismology. The work on Algorithm tackled in it brings together disciplines like Seismic migration and Signal. The journal explores issues in Electrical resistivity tomography which can be linked to other research areas like Karst and Ground-penetrating radar.

The journal facilitates discussions on Electrical resistivity and conductivity that incorporate concepts from other fields like Soil science, Permeability (earth sciences), Mineralogy, Petrology and Aquifer. Inversion (meteorology) research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Time domain and Wavelet. The Seismology research presented in the journal explores the relationship between Borehole and the closely related topic of Tomography and Groundwater.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Successful application of drone-based aeromagnetic surveys to locate legacy oil and gas wells in Cattaraugus county, New York (5 citations)
  • Effective machine learning identification of TOC-rich zones in the Eagle Ford Shale (3 citations)
  • Bedrock architecture, soil texture, and hyporheic zone characterization combining electrical resistivity and induced polarization imaging (3 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Journal of Applied Geophysics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Jianghai Xia (25 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Esben Auken (21 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Fernando A. Monteiro Santos (21 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Christopher Juhlin (21 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Yixian Xu (19 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Journal of Applied Geophysics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (124 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 7 less than at the previous edition,
  • China University of Petroleum (122 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 6 less than at the previous edition,
  • China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) (96 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Jilin University (95 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Tehran (58 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 10.53% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 25.49% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 9.80% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 13.07% of all publications and 51.63% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Acoustic emission signal characteristics and its critical slowing down phenomenon during the loading process of water-bearing sandstone

    (2021)
    51 Citations
  • Comparison of novel semi-airborne electromagnetic data with multi-scale geophysical, petrophysical and geological data from Schleiz, Germany

    Annika Steuer;Maria Smirnova;Michael Becken;Markus Schiffler

    (2020)
    39 Citations
  • Time-series clustering approaches for subsurface zonation and hydrofacies detection using a real time-lapse electrical resistivity dataset

    Damien Delforge;Damien Delforge;Arnaud Watlet;Olivier Kaufmann;Michel Van Camp

    (2021)
    33 Citations
  • The influence of minerals on the mechanism of microwave-induced fracturing of rocks

    Gaoming Lu;Jianjun Zhou;Yuanhui Li;Xiwei Zhang

    (2020)
    33 Citations
  • Study on the acoustic and thermal response characteristics of coal samples with various prefabricated crack angles during loaded failure under uniaxial compression

    (2022)
    31 Citations
  • Machine learning based fast forward modelling of ground-based time-domain electromagnetic data

    Thue Sylvester Bording;Muhammad Rizwan Asif;Adrian S. Barfod;Jakob Juul Larsen

    (2021)
    28 Citations
  • Soil electrical conductivity imaging using a neural network-based forward solver: Applied to large-scale Bayesian electromagnetic inversion

    Davood Moghadas;Ahmad A. Behroozmand;Anders Vest Christiansen

    (2020)
    25 Citations
  • Use of peaks and troughs in the horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio of ambient noise for Rayleigh-wave dispersion curve picking

    José Piña-Flores;Martín Cárdenas-Soto;Antonio García-Jerez;Helena Seivane

    (2020)
    24 Citations
  • 2D nonlinear site response analysis of typical stiff and soft soil sites at shallow bedrock region with low to medium seismicity

    Deepu Chandran;P. Anbazhagan

    (2020)
    23 Citations
  • Evaluation of spectral induced polarization field measurements in time and frequency domain

    Tina Martin;Thomas Günther;Adrian Flores Orozco;Torleif Dahlin

    (2020)
    22 Citations

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